At 06:36 PM 8/19/02 -0500, James & Tatiana Miller wrote:
>Hello all:
>
>I've got a notebook that I will be hooking an external display to from
>time to time. Of course the external display has totally different
>settings than the notebook's native display (native display is limited to
>800x600 res, for example). For this reason, I'd like to be able to start X
>with one of 2 differing XF86Config files, depending on whether I'll be
>using the notebook's own monitor or the external one. I've got
>working XF86Config files for both the external and native displays.
>What I'm having some trouble with is figuring out how to invoke one or the
>other XF86Config file when I start X. Any suggestions on how to go about
>this?
Never needed to do this myself, but the man page for "XF86Config" says you
can specify an alternate file with the "-xf86config" argument on the
command line. The man page is a bit unclear as to what command it
associates this aggument with, and you don't say how you are starting X
anyway ... but I'd *try* passing it as a server argument to startx ("startx
-- -xf86config appropriate_file_name") and seeing it that did the trick.
If that's not quite it, perhaps this is enough of a start that you can use
the man system to track down the right way to pass this argument yourself.
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